Murilo Mendes

Murilo Mendes was born on 13 May 1901 in Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais. He said he owed his vocation to the passage of Halley's comet in 1910 and to Nijinsky, whom he saw dance in Rio. He was a telegraph operator and bookkeeper before entering the civil service. In 1934 he lost his friend the painter Ismael Nery, who had led him to Catholicism. Settled in Italy in 1957, he taught Brazilian literature in Rome, then in Pisa, and died in Lisbon on 13 August 1975.

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• PoetryPoemasMurilo Mendes · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature